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XML10

To celebrate ten years
of XML, W3C invites you to send a greeting and tell us about
an XML-related blog or article. Many thanks to the FLWOR Foundation for
their generous sponsorship of XML10.

XML is Ten!

2008-02-12:
Ten years ago, on 10 February 1998, W3C published Extensible Markup Language (XML)
1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. W3C is marking the ten-year
anniversary of XML by celebrating "XML10" and
extending thanks to the dedicated communities -- including people who have
participated in W3C's XML groups and mailing lists, the SGML community, and
xml-dev -- whose efforts have created a successful family of technologies
based on the solid XML 1.0 foundation. The success of XML is a strong
indicator of how dedicated individuals, working within the W3C Process, can
engage with a larger community to produce industry-changing results. "Today
we celebrate the success of open standards in preserving Web data from
proprietary ownership," said Jon Bosak, who led the W3C Working Group that
produced XML 1.0. Read the press
release and testimonials.
Send W3C a greeting and learn
more about XML at W3C. (Permalink)

W3C mobileOK Checker "Beta" Released for
Mobile World Congress

2008-02-08: W3C invites Web content authors to run the
beta release of the W3C mobileOK
checker and make their content work on a broad range of mobile devices.
This new version provides more accurate results and a more reliable
experience. Visitors of the Mobile World Congress (in
Barcelona, starting Monday, 11 February) are welcome to stop by the W3C Mobile Web Initiative
booth (in Hall 7) to learn more about this tool for making Web sites
mobile-friendly. (Permalink)

WAI-ARIA
defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to
people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and
advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and
related technologies. An updated WAI-ARIA
Roadmap was also published.

Call for Review: Canonical XML 1.1
Proposed Recommendation

2008-01-29: The XML Core Working Group has published the Proposed
Recommendation of Canonical XML
1.1. The specification establishes a method for determining whether two
documents are identical, or whether an application has not changed a
document, except for transformations permitted by XML 1.0 and Namespaces in
XML. Canonical XML 1.1 is a revision to Canonical XML 1.0 designed to
address issues related to inheritance of attributes in the XML namespace
when canonicalizing document subsets, including the requirement not to
inherit xml:id, and to treat xml:base URI path
processing properly. Comments are welcome through 07 March. Learn more
about W3C's XML Activity. (Permalink)

SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System
Reference (First Public Working Draft)

2008-01-25: The Semantic Web
Deployment Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft
of SKOS Simple Knowledge
Organization System Reference. This document defines the Simple
Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), a common data model for sharing and
linking knowledge organization systems via the Semantic Web. SKOS provides
a standard, low-cost means to describe the semantic relationships between
existing knowledge systems and to port those systems to the Semantic Web.
SKOS also provides a lightweight, intuitive language for developing and
sharing new knowledge organization systems. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. (Permalink)

W3C Publishes HTML 5 Draft, Future of Web
Content

2008-01-22: W3C today published an
early draft of HTML 5, a major
revision of the markup language for the Web. The HTML
Working Group is creating HTML 5 to be the open, royalty-free
specification for rich Web content and Web applications. "HTML is of course
a very important standard," said Tim Berners-Lee, author of the first
version of HTML and W3C Director. "I am glad to see that the community of
developers, including browser vendors, is working together to create the
best possible path for the Web." New features include APIs for drawing
two-dimensional graphics and ways to embed and control audio and video
content. HTML 5 helps to improve interoperability and reduce software costs
by giving precise rules not only about how to handle all correct HTML
documents but also how to recover from errors. Discover other new features, read
the press release, and learn more
about the future of HTML. (Permalink)

Relationship Between Mobile Web and Web Content
Accessibility (First Public Working Draft)

W3C Advisory Committee Elects TAG Participants

2008-01-22: The W3C Advisory Committee has elected
Ashok Malhotra (Oracle), T.V. Raman (Google), and Henry Thompson
(University of Edinburgh) to the W3C Technical
Architecture Group (TAG). Continuing TAG participants are Noah
Mendelsohn (IBM), David Orchard (BEA), Jonathan Rees (Science Commons),
Norm Walsh (Sun), and Stuart Williams (HP), who co-Chairs the TAG with Tim
Berners-Lee. The mission
of the TAG is to build consensus around principles of Web architecture and
to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues
involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and to help
coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside
W3C. (Permalink)

Inventive Designers is an active
member of the XSL WG. It offers a complete output solution, called
Scriptura XBOS, that is platform independent, very user-friendly and based
on W3C standards such as XML, XSLT, XSL-FO, SVG, and SOAP 1.2. (Member
testimonials)